“If you submit to God, he will show you. If he doesn’t show you, you haven’t fully submitted.”— Wait. That’s circular logic. Did anybody else catch that?

“But worship is simple. Anybody can worship.”— Damnit?! I’m really trying here! What IS it? Are we doing it yet?

“That ain’t it. You don’t get it. THIS is it!”— You know what? Forget it. I quit.

I tried everything. I fasted, I read. I studied, sought counsel, and I waited. I stuck my right leg in. I took my right leg out. I did the whole hokey pokey and by the time I got done turning myself around, I was dizzy. And frustrated, and angry, and ready to quit.

How can an employee perform well if you don’t give a job description? How can you proceed confidently when you don’t know what you’re supposed to be doing? I just want to know I’m right. I’m tired of being wrong.

Can I offer a solution?

(1) Every working team needs achievable goals. Sometimes the things asked of people in ministry seem superhuman. That leads to frustration and disappointment and people quitting.

(2) Ask yourself if you really know what worship is. If you learned by imitating someone else, then like me, maybe you’re just wrong. And if you don’t know anything, please just admit that. People are usually less upset that you can’t fly if you tell them before they get on your plane.

“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” ―Albert Einstein

What is YOUR definition of worship? How do YOU do it?

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This is #5 in a 5-part series called Exit Wounds: Song of an Ex-Worship Leader.Read the introduction here. You just read “So You Think You Can Worship?”

PART 1: The Miseducation of the Worship Leader [1/5] — Whatever worship is, I thought it was more powerful than it actually is. When I found out how mystical it wasn’t, I could not deal. I wish someone would have done a better job warning me worship wouldn’t protect me from life happening.

PART 2: Church Superstars: You Ain’t Got It [2/5] — Music was one thing I was sure I was good at, so to hear that I wasn’t good enough was crushing. It left me unsure of “my calling,” and doubting whether I was good at anything.

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2 thoughts on “So You Think You Can Worship? [5/5]”

I too have toiled with what worship actually is… and this has been my most recent revelation.

Worship is exalting a truth about God. Hence, worship should also be a lifestyle because at all times and in all situations we should be exalting a truth about God; keeping a perpetual focus on Him. That’s why praise and worship (musically) is such a charged event- all of the emotion born of song mixed with the spiritual experience of exalting truths about God. That’s also why the music can be lacking or sub par while the worship experience remains phenomenal, but not the other way around.

PRAISE AND WORTHSHIP. thats what its all about..It really is a spiritual weapon aim at principilities and and powers. So the worship leader should be aware of counterattacks from the enemies camp. I learnt that the hard way.

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